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A Race to Catch the Future: A Glance Back Michael L. Wehmeyer, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Race to Catch the Future: A Glance Back Michael L. Wehmeyer, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Race to Catch the Future: A Glance Back Michael L. Wehmeyer, Ph.D., FAAIDD 2 3 4 5 Early Modern Times (1500-1799) 6 7 8 Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons G. A. Doren, M.D.
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Early Modern Times (1500-1799)
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Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons
Edouard Seguin, M.D. President 1876 to 1877 Hervey B. Wilbur, M.D. President 1877 to 1878
- G. A. Doren, M.D.
President 1878 to 1879 Isaac N. Kerlin, M.D. President 1891 to 1892
- H. M. Knight, M.D.
President 1879 to 1880 George W. Brown, M.D. President 1881 to 1882 Pennsylvania Training School, Media PA
Second Annual Meeting June 12-15, 1877
Charles T. Wilbur, M.D. President 1880 to 1881
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Isolation, Enlargement, and Economization
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"a snake pit... the children live in filth…
“… I think that particularly at Willowbrook, we have a situation that borders on a snake pit, and that the children live in filth, that many of our fellow citizens are suffering tremendously because lack of attention, lack
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adequate manpower. There is very little future for these children, for those who are in these institutions. ….”
Image from Parallels in Time, Minnesota Developmental Disabilities Council http://www.mnddc.org/parallels/
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Christmas in Purgatory
Burton Blatt, EdD President 1976 to 1977
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The Parent Movement
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The Parent Movement
President Kennedy addresses the 13th Annual Convention Luncheon of the National Association for Retarded Children
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(photo from the author’s collection).
President John F. Kennedy gives Eunice Kennedy Shriver the pen he used to sign intellectual disability legislation in October, 1963 (photo from the collection of David Braddock, used with permission).
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The Self-Advocacy Movement
Ed Roberts Justin Dart at signing of ADA Bengt Nirje at AAMR
Tia Nellis and Elizabeth Weintraub Nancy Ward
Robert Williams at SABE
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Supports and Support Needs
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
1. Understanding people as different soon becomes construed as inferior, leading to discrimination and maltreatment. 2. Separate is never equal. 3. We are constrained by our own lack of imagination. 4. We have always been wrong about what we believe people with intellectual disability can achieve. 5. The injustice committed against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout time has been to deny them the dignity afforded to persons simply by their status as human beings.
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